bunko
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Neighbors knew her from the monthly gathering of women who rotated between homes for games of the dice game bunko.
From Time ● Dec. 17, 2012
Caan, a perennially baffled ex-con, basically plays straight man to Boyle as a bunko artist-bandleader and Lasser as the band leader's addled spouse, both of whom are amiably funny throughout.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose her unless she let him become Steele, with appropriate office space and elaborate perks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Originally a Victorian parlor game, bunco made its way to the U.S. in the mid-1850s as a gambling game known first as "banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko."
From Time Magazine Archive
Had I gone to New York City and hunted up the gentlemanly bunko man and the Wall street dealer in lamb's pelts, as my better judgment prompted, I might have returned with funds.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
"Well, I'll be bunkoed," said Uncle Ike, as he began to pull the sweater off over his head.
From Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
“So you’re the party who bunkoed Lefty, are you?”
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Standish, Burt L.
If they 15 promised that, they sure bunkoed themselves.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)
“Besides,” Burd Alling said in comment on this, “for a good cause we are all ready and willing to be bunkoed a little.”
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret
I hope I'm a good loser as far as the money goes, but I hate to be bunkoed.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
